Record Number: 30792
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'We were taken round the Archives by the Director. I never saw such a place as the Archives. They are in an enormous building of 4 courts, formerly a monastery, and from floor to ceiling the shelves are full of volumes and volumes of MSS, no printed books at all. We saw for instance shelves and shelves of all the reports of the Ambassadors in London — several rooms of reports from the Ambassadors in Rome [Roma], and so forth. I took down a volume of the English reports for the year 1640 and read a letter about the long Parliament which was fortunately not in cypher. I don't wonder it's difficult to write a history of Venice — you ought to begin by reading at least 10,000 volumes of MS if you want to be at all accurate! They gave one a great impression of the Venetian activity, those endless corridors full of letters and reports.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:7 Apr 1896
Country:Italy
Timedaytime
Place:city: Venice
specific address: State Archives, Frari (prev.Franciscan convent)
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:16 Jul 1868
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Oxford graduate, language student, yet to take up formal occupation as archaeologist and political advisor
Religion:Christian (Anglican) later declared herself atheist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:History, Politics
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter in a bound volume of MSS
Publication Details1640
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:30792
Source - Manuscript:Other
Information:
Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk,
Additional Information:
Letter from Gertrude Bell to Florence Bell, 7 April 1896 Venice http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/letter_details.php?letter_id=558
Citation:
Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk,, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30792, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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